Man, could I ever be stressed! Just when I think I’m getting a handle on something, it seems like everything goes haywire! Have you ever been there? I’m sure every one of us has. It’s certainly not fun and you try to figure out what went wrong. Some things that go awry for no apparent reason are just part of life and we simply need to learn to glean from these experiences instead of letting them take us down with a bad disposition. Who wants to be around someone who’s whining and complaining all the time?!

It’s all about perspective and attitude, and most importantly, our walk and relationship with the Lord. What we really need to do in times like that is to learn from the bad experiences and move onward and upward into new heights of revelation, insight and victory, not of our own initiative, but by depending totally on the Lord Jesus to walk us through the storms. Quite frankly, a lot of these testings and trials of life oftentimes lead us into something that we might not otherwise have experienced and thus grow in maturity. Yes and Amen!

And that’s exactly what has happened to me in my fight against cancer. I’ve learned not to be disappointed that I have to go through this, but rather — to be anointed ‘for a time such as this.’ In other words, how can I turn this into a positive? Life can be very hard at times, but we can take any adverse situation in our lives to the feet of the Lord, deposit them there, and watch how wonderfully He redeems it! Just as the old song says, there IS power, wonder working power, in the precious blood of the Lamb of God. Revelation 12:11 declares: “They overcame by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony.” [My emphasis] So what we say, we get. Our words form our world. Are we whining or winning?